Summer Reading for AP/ECE UConn – English 140 - Halsey
Choose a pair:
Orphans in Fiction – David Copperfield and Orphan Master’s Son (New Pulitzer)
Charles Dickens and Adam Johnson
The Feminine Experience – Jane Eyre and The Woman Warrior
Charlotte Bronte and Maxime Hong Kingston
The Tortured Woman – Anna Karenina and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Leo Tolstoy and Khaled Hossieni
Immigration – A Passage to India and The Namesake
E. M. Forester and Jhumpa Lahiri
African Nation – Things Fall Apart and Cutting for Stone
Chinua Achebe and Abraham Verghese
American Landscape – Grapes of Wrath and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
John Steinbeck and David Wroblewski
Asian Fusion – The Story of the Stone (Penguin) and Joy Luck Club
Cao Xueqin and Amy Tan
Magical Realism – One Hundred Years of Solitude and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie
African American Cross Gender – Invisible Man and Song of Solomon
Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison
Everyone must read “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett
Assignment:
Read a pair of books (one canonical, one contemporary) that represent a similar theme, style, culture. If you would like to choose your own pair, please pass your selection through me first.
Writing Assignment: Four to five page essay. Look up the word “essay” on Owl Purdue writing site. This should be an argumentative essay where you develop a thesis that is interesting exploration for you within the books. You must use textual evidence, which means you should collect quotes and passages, annotate your books, highlight – finding ideas and threads is messy, make it so.
Basicially, how do these books talk to each other, disagree, concur, discuss common ideas and themes? Imagine the authors and characters in conversation with one another. Where are you in this conversation – please allow yourself to enter the conversation.
Then – read “Waiting for Godot.” I will set up a blog so you can discuss your readings on Aspen. In a two -page essay, how does this reading change your view of the paired- reading.
Summer Reading Assignment for AP/ECE English
Summer Reading for AP/ECE UConn – English 140 - Halsey
Choose a pair:
Orphans in Fiction – David Copperfield and Orphan Master’s Son (New Pulitzer)
Charles Dickens and Adam Johnson
The Feminine Experience – Jane Eyre and The Woman Warrior
Charlotte Bronte and Maxime Hong Kingston
The Tortured Woman – Anna Karenina and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Leo Tolstoy and Khaled Hossieni
Immigration – A Passage to India and The Namesake
E. M. Forester and Jhumpa Lahiri
African Nation – Things Fall Apart and Cutting for Stone
Chinua Achebe and Abraham Verghese
American Landscape – Grapes of Wrath and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
John Steinbeck and David Wroblewski
Asian Fusion – The Story of the Stone (Penguin) and Joy Luck Club
Cao Xueqin and Amy Tan
Magical Realism – One Hundred Years of Solitude and Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie
African American Cross Gender – Invisible Man and Song of Solomon
Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison
Everyone must read “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett
Assignment:
Read a pair of books (one canonical, one contemporary) that represent a similar theme, style, culture. If you would like to choose your own pair, please pass your selection through me first.
whalsey@montvilleschools.org
Writing Assignment: Four to five page essay. Look up the word “essay” on Owl Purdue writing site. This should be an argumentative essay where you develop a thesis that is interesting exploration for you within the books. You must use textual evidence, which means you should collect quotes and passages, annotate your books, highlight – finding ideas and threads is messy, make it so.
Basicially, how do these books talk to each other, disagree, concur, discuss common ideas and themes? Imagine the authors and characters in conversation with one another. Where are you in this conversation – please allow yourself to enter the conversation.
Then – read “Waiting for Godot.” I will set up a blog so you can discuss your readings on Aspen. In a two -page essay, how does this reading change your view of the paired- reading.
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